EP1871670B1 - Apparatus for transferring products - Google Patents

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EP1871670B1
EP1871670B1 EP06716625A EP06716625A EP1871670B1 EP 1871670 B1 EP1871670 B1 EP 1871670B1 EP 06716625 A EP06716625 A EP 06716625A EP 06716625 A EP06716625 A EP 06716625A EP 1871670 B1 EP1871670 B1 EP 1871670B1
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Hendrikus Louis Stephanus De Vlaam
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G29/00—Rotary conveyors, e.g. rotating discs, arms, star-wheels or cones
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K43/00—Testing, sorting or cleaning eggs ; Conveying devices ; Pick-up devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B23/00—Packaging fragile or shock-sensitive articles other than bottles; Unpacking eggs
    • B65B23/02—Packaging or unpacking eggs
    • B65B23/06—Arranging, feeding, or orientating the eggs to be packed; Removing eggs from trays or cartons
    • B65B23/08—Arranging, feeding, or orientating the eggs to be packed; Removing eggs from trays or cartons using grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/10—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles
    • B65B35/16—Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/56—Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section
    • B65B35/58—Turning articles by positively-acting means, e.g. to present labelled portions in uppermost position
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • B65B57/14—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged and operating to control, or stop, the feed of articles or material to be packaged
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
    • B65G47/84—Star-shaped wheels or devices having endless travelling belts or chains, the wheels or devices being equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/846—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements
    • B65G47/847—Star-shaped wheels or wheels equipped with article-engaging elements the article-engaging elements being grippers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0202—Agricultural and processed food products
    • B65G2201/0208—Eggs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0202—Agricultural and processed food products
    • B65G2201/0211—Fruits and vegetables
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    • G01N33/00—Investigating or analysing materials by specific methods not covered by groups G01N1/00 - G01N31/00
    • G01N33/02—Food
    • G01N33/08—Eggs, e.g. by candling
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S209/00—Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
    • Y10S209/903—Feeder conveyor having opposed grippers

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  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for removing undesirable products, for instance eggs or fruits, from a stream of products, as described in the introductory portion of claim 1.
  • EP-A-0 732 265 or US-6,446,784 B1 Such an apparatus is known from EP-A-0 732 265 or US-6,446,784 B1 .
  • a so-called turning apparatus is described with which, with the aid of grippers, eggs are picked up from rollers from an endless feed conveyor, are then, in the turning apparatus, all turned with the point in the same direction and are finally deposited on rollers of a endless follow-on conveyor located downstream. In this manner, all eggs are transferred from the one to the other conveyor.
  • the possibility for removing an undesirable product during transfer is described. This takes place after the products have been picked up by the grippers of the transfer conveyor. In other words, in these apparatuses each egg is gripped by the grippers of the transfer conveyor during transfer.
  • guides such as a turnstile or a push bar system are used, for guiding the eggs further to the follow-on conveyor as well as for positioning the eggs to be removed to the proper location for removal.
  • guides such as a turnstile or a push bar system are used, for guiding the eggs further to the follow-on conveyor as well as for positioning the eggs to be removed to the proper location for removal.
  • a similar arrangement is known from US-5,277,820 A .
  • the apparatus according to the invention has the features of claim 1.
  • the apparatus is characterized in that the endless transfer conveyor is a cylinder drum.
  • the endless transfer conveyor is a cylinder drum.
  • the apparatus is characterized in that the pitch of the feed conveyor is greater than that of the follow-on conveyor, or, also, in that the pitch of the feed conveyor is smaller than that of the follow-on conveyor.
  • pitch reduction has as a particular advantage that the gripper half located downstream obtains approximately the same speed as the lay-on roller for the egg to be transferred. In this manner, any damage to a product is suitably prevented.
  • products P for instance eggs
  • an endless feed conveyor 1 products P, for instance eggs
  • product transfer elements 6 which are provided on endless transfer conveyor 5, and are then transferred to an endless follow-on conveyor 2.
  • This feed conveyor 1 is a generally utilized roller conveyor with rollers 3.
  • these rollers are hour-glass shaped, i.e. having a constricted center part, with the eggs finding a place, resting on two successive rollers forming part of a row of such successive rollers 3.
  • the distances between the rollers 3, or also the distances, or pitch distances, between the centers between the rollers actually forming the distances between the products P, are for the conveyors 1 and 2, p and p', respectively. In the exemplary embodiment shown, these distances are the same.
  • roller conveyor comprises several rows side by side.
  • the roller conveyor has the function of feeding the eggs in a sorted manner suitable to the sorting system, after the eggs have been picked up by a system of suction cup elements from, for instance, trays and have been deposited on the rollers.
  • the transfer conveyor 5 is a cylinder drum 8 with an endless chain to which the product transfer elements 6 are connected. More particularly, the chain consists of links or segments 7 to which the product transfer elements are connected while the elements used are grippers 6 with grippers hands 6a, b.
  • the products are picked up from conveyor 1, carried along by the drum 8 rotating in direction of rotation R, and thereupon, deposited once more on the conveyor. Opening and closing of such grippers is known from, for instance, earlier cited EP732265 , wherein a combination of a cam and cam track is utilized. With this, the paths over which the grippers 6 are opened or closed are defined.
  • the grippers can rotate, also described in detail in EP 732265 , in which the eggs are brought in a preoriented position A by pre-orienting elements 4 while after transfer, the eggs are brought in an intermediate position B, and finally, upon depositing, the eggs are brought in an aligned position C.
  • the function of ejecting eggs during transfer with the cylinder drum can be applied in combination with the already described functions, more particularly for eggs that are, for instance, damaged or soiled to a limited extent.
  • the eggs can be discharged in a known manner.
  • soiled to a limited extent eggs can still be led through a washing system or, also, to a sorting belt intended thereto.
  • slightly damaged eggs can be removed and be ranged in special selections.
  • a set-up and combination of cam and cam track can be opted for, where the grippers are also closed with empty feed positions, or where all eggs are transferred especially in the case of malfunction. What is prevented in the latter case is that too many eggs are removed from the stream.
  • one or several grippers connected to and moved by a robot arm can be considered. This may for instance the case when sorting and packaging large fruits such as melons.
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